To make assessments in benefits ges awarded for lands taken in that district, and the proportion of the joint costs apportioned to that district, pursuant to section seven of this act, together with the fees of the collector, for collecting the assessments, as hereinafter provided; and also such further sum as they may deem necessary to meet any other expenses that they may incur in that district, in carrying out the provisions of this act, such further sum not to exceed for each district, one hundred dollars; and said commissioners shall make the said assessment on said lands in proportion to the benefit received, in their proportion judgment, by the owners thereof; and they shall make a received. map showing the boundaries of the lands so assessed, and the course, length, and location of the road opened and widened; and shall mark the amount of the assessment to any owner upon the plot of his land, and shall make a certificate of the whole amount of the assessment, and the To give no- amount assessed to each owner; whereupon the said comtice of missioners shall give ten days' notice, by posting the same hearing ob- at five conspicuous places on the line of the improvement, that they will meet at a time and place, to be specified in said notice, to hear and consider all objections to said assessments, and to correct and finally confirm the same; and notwithstanding any error in said certificate in not naming the true owner or owners of any lot or parcel, the said aswithstand- sessment shall remain valid and effectual against such lot or parcel and be collected in the manner hereinafter prescribed; and if in said assessments or certificate any errors be made in not dividing any plot according to its actual ownership, such errors shall not defeat or impair the aasessments; but the commissioners shall, upon application to them, divide said assessments, and apportion them to such lots. meeting for jections. Assess ment to be valid not ing certain errors. Map and certificate pleted, filed. sioners to 10. And be it enacted, That the said map and certificate, when com- when finally completed and confirmed, shall be filed in the where to be office of the clerk of the county of Bergen, from which time the said assessments shall be liens on the lands on Commis- which they are respectively made; and the said commisdeliver cop- sioners shall deliver copies of said map and certificate to the collectors of taxes for the time being of the townships of collectors. Lodi and Saddle River; and thereupon it shall be the Collectors duty of the said collectors to collect the said assessments asassessment sessed in their respective townships, within sixty days from ies of the same to to collect the time they receive said maps and certificates, in the same manner in which township taxes are collected, and to pay the same over to one of the said commissioners, who shall have been chosen by them as their treasurer; and the said collectors shall proceed in all things as by the laws of this state township collectors are bound to proceed, where not otherwise herein specified, and shall be liable to the same pains and penalties prescribed in such cases. terest of certain 11. And be it enacted, That in case any owner or owners Rate of inof lands shall fail to pay the assessment laid thereon, with- assessment in sixty days from the time the collectors received the said not paid in maps and certificates, said assessments shall draw interest time. at the rate of twelve per centum per annum, until paid, and the collectors shall return the same in the same manner, and all subsequent proceedings, including the sale of lands so assessed, shall be the same as if they were to be had for any unpaid taxes; and the moneys made by virtue of the sale of lands or chattels shall be paid over to the treasurer of said commissioners. how filled. 12. And be it enacted, That if the office of any of said Vacancy commissioners shall become vacant by death, refusal to act, or otherwise, the remaining commissioners may choose a person to fill such vacancy; and the said commissioners, before they enter upon the performance of their duties, shall take and subscribe an oath, before a justice of the peace, that they will faithfully and impartially perform the duties required of them by this act. 13. And be it enacted, That this act shall be a public act, and take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1874. Repealer. CHAPTER DXXXV. An act to repeal "An act to provide courts of summary jurisdiction in the city of Jersey City," passed April second, eighteen hundred and seventy-three. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That an act entitled "An act to provide courts of summary jurisdiction in the city of Jersey City," passed April second, eighteen hundred and seventythree, be and the same is hereby repealed; and all acts and parts of acts repealed by said act are hereby revived. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1874. Road board with cer CHAPTER DXXXVIII. An act for the relief of the Township of Milburn. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the to proceed State of New Jersey, That it shall be the duty of the Essex tain work. county public road board, and they are hereby directed and required to proceed with and complete the laying out, opening and construction of the avenue known as Springfield avenue, through the township of Milburn to the boundary line of the county of Essex, so that the same shall be constructed and completed on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven. If said work not completed 2. And be it enacted, That in case the said Springfield avenue shall not be constructed and completed in and through in certain said township of Milburn, that then and thereafter, that is exempt to say, from and after the said first day of January, one thou time, who tion. sand eight hundred and seventy-seven, the said township of from taxaMilburn, and the inhabitants thereof, and all property in said township shall be exempt from all liability to taxation or assessment, or contribution, on account of any expenditures, indebtedness, or outlay made and created, or which shall be hereafter made and created by the said Essex county public road board, or for or by reason of any work or expenditure under their supervision. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts incon- Repealer. sistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1874. CHAPTER CIV. A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Washington Fire Company, Number One, of Matawan Township, Monmouth County," approved March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy. Voters in trict em tain sum by 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the legal voters embraced in certain diswhat is known as the fire district in the said township of powered to Matawan, are hereby authorized to raise by taxation, to be raise cerassessed and collected as other taxes are assessed and col-taxation. lected, a sum of money not to exceed one thousand dollars, and to be voted for by the legal voters of the said fire district at the next annual election. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the act to which Repealer. this is a supplement as conflicts with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 27, 1874. |